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How do you guys shut down your machine?
Rocky:
I double tap the power switch. This has been a way to cleanly shut down Windows since the beginning.
Thenasty:
I just go in the back of the cabinet and flick the siwtch off.
danny_galaga:
i use a macro to shut it down when i press red fire button and player two button simultaneously. if i used dos i would probably just turn it off at the switch...
telengard:
--- Quote from: 2PacMan on June 10, 2005, 08:52:30 am ---I'm to the point where i need to figure out how to shut down my computer once it's inside my cabinet. I have a button that will turn it on from the cab....but how do i shut it down? I can turn off the computer fine, but what about windows?
Don't i have to properly shut down windows through the start menu...i can't just cut the power, right?? I'm running windows XP, so the ctl+alt+del doesn't power down windows...any ideas?? I'm sure there's an easy way i'm just overlooking..
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I wrote a little frontend where one of the options is to 'restart windows'. Be sure your BIOS is setup to allow it to come back up after power down. My computer needed to have that option changed.
The script is here if you are looking for ideas:
http://users.adelphia.net/~bsturk/programs/cab_menu.py
~telengard
AlanS17:
If you're using DOS, no shut down is required. You can simply cut the power safely (assuming you've made no in-game changes you'd like to keep).
Windows has to be properly shut down. I've completely crashed Windows computers before because they weren't shut down properly.